Steve Mullaney

CEO

Steve Mullaney brings 30 years of marketing, product management, and engineering experience in network infrastructure and security to Aviatrix. Most recently, Steve was the CEO of Nicira Inc., a network virtualization and software-defined networking company, from 2009 until it was acquired in 2012 by VMware for $1.26 billion. Nicira invented the concept of offering software-based services running on top of networking hardware. Mullaney became the senior vice president and general manager of VMware’s Networking and Security business unit following Nicira’s acquisition.

Prior to Nicira, he served as vice president, marketing, and interim CEO for Palo Alto Networks. During his tenure, Mullaney oversaw the company’s invention of the next-generation firewall market category, which helped cement Palo Alto Networks’ reputation as a thought leader and cybersecurity innovator.

Steve also held executive positions at Blue Coat, Force10, Cisco, Growth Networks, ShoreTel, Bay Networks and SynOptics, and began his career as a design engineer at GTE Government Systems. Steve holds a BSEE from University of Rhode Island.

Sherry Wei

Chief Product Officer and Founder

Sherry Wei quit her job at Huawei in 2013 and bootstrapped Aviatrix. The idea behind the technology was to extend the enterprise datacenter to AWS without touching the underlying network infrastructure. Aviatrix was able to acquire a couple of enterprise customers using its hybrid cloud solution before receiving funding.

Prior to Huawei, Sherry worked at Cisco for 13 years. She led and developed a few Cisco first generation products, among them the first Intel-based Cisco Integrated System Router (ISR) and the first Cisco T1/E1 Voice and WAN Interface Module.

Sherry joined Cisco as part of the acquisition of Ardent Communications where she was the first employee and wrote a significant amount of code. Prior to Ardent, Sherry was an early employee at Centillion Networks that was acquired by Bay Networks (Nortel). Sherry holds a Ph.D from Purdue University in EECS.

John Jendricks

Chief Operating Officer

John Jendricks serves as the chief operating officer for Aviatrix. Formerly Chief of staff for VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger, Jendricks initially joined VMware six years ago as vice president, business development and operations, alongside the Nicira acquisition. He has over 35 years of technology experience in driving innovative technologies to become industry-leading products.,

Prior to joining VMware, Jendricks was responsible for business & commercial operations as vice president, business development and operations at Nicira, Inc. Jendricks also spent many years as CIO in the industry, leading technology implementation at Adobe, Wellfleet (acquired by Synoptics), and StrataCom (acquired by Cisco).

Neel Kamal

Vice President of Sales, North America

Neel Kamal is Vice President of Sales, North America at Aviatrix. Neel focuses on a building a world class team of enablers who believe that innovation can, and should, happen in every job function including sales. He is passionate about startup culture and the pursuit of excellence in sales execution. Prior to Aviatrix, Neel Kamal worked in various field-facing roles for many startup companies including Wavefront (acquired by VMWARE), Couchbase, Encentuate (acquired by IBM).

Neel earned his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, and his Master of Science in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and National University of Singapore.

Rod Stuhlmuller

Vice President of Marketing

Rod Stuhlmuller is an experienced, early stage technology market creation executive, Rod brings over 25 years of product marketing experience and base of knowledge in cloud, data center and mobile networking, network management, network security and AI. A serial “startup guy”, Rod was Sr. Director of Product Marketing for VMware’s Network and Security Business Unit after leading product marketing for Nicira, the early stage startup that created the network virtualization market and was acquired by VMware in 2012.

Prior to Nicira, Rod has held management positions at several startup companies including ActivCard (ActivIdentity) after beginning his career in field systems engineer and product management roles with industry leaders Bay Networks, Synoptics and Novell.

“The Aviatrix software provides automated connectivity to Amazon clouds allowing us to create multiple VPCs easily and quickly. We are now serving business units of Robert Half, providing an IT supported self-service system to leverage the public cloud.”

—Senior Cloud Architect, Robert Half

Mobile gaming company GREE Uses AWS and Aviatrix to launch new games faster and more securely.

“To the extent that we have peers, they tend to be big Amazon and Docker users. Aviatrix is the networking substrate that we can ignore, that just needs to work. For us, Aviatrix works out really well.”